“I can't say enough good things about LeanKit. [Once I grasped the UI], I saw the power of being able to visually represent what I wanted to with the tool.”

- Kelly Hair, Router Lab

“The ability to deploy on-site (when security needs require it) or host in the cloud and get the same feature set makes this solution appealing to a wide audience. The application is mature and feature-rich, encompassing all aspects of defect tracking. [It] integrates with many other solutions.”

- Rusty Wilson, Zenoss Inc.

Most negative review:Most negative review:

“It sends you a ridiculous number of emails. Every little change made to a task or board is emailed to you—even if you did it.”

- Katie Mitchell, Clickback Inc.

“It’s expensive—not terribly expensive, but it’s not a budget software. Because of this, it’s mostly a professional-grade tool used by businesses, so you’ll never get the ‘open source’ environment building and adding on to their platform.”

- Mitch Moody, Anyone Home Inc.

Pricing:

How it's priced:How it's priced:

LeanKit is a cloud-based solution. You pay a monthly subscription fee for each user login.

JIRA Software is available as a cloud-based solution, where you pay either a monthly or annual subscription fee; as an on-premise solution, where you pay an upfront, perpetual license fee; or through the Data Center deployment, where you pay an annual subscription fee.

Contract term:Contract term:

LeanKit requires a monthly contract for cloud-based deployment.

JIRA Software requires no contract for cloud-based deployment or on-premise deployment; it requires an annual contract for Data Center deployment.